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Tools to Create teaching materials

Teacher Scholastic

Customize these FREE, ready-to-use reproducibles to create great classroom materials.
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Assess students’ skills using one of our handy helpers.
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Annie Wilson
Are blogs a passing trend or are they here to stay? In the article, Blogs http://www.learningcircuits.org/2002/apr2002/cross.html, Jay Cross explains why blogs ‘work’ and argues that they are gaining popularity. One of his reasons is that blogs “are personal and unfiltered. Real people, rather than corporate PR departments or ad agencies, write them.” This [...]

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Wikis–Are They Too “Editable”?
Moira Hunter
Annie Wilson
I am working with Wikis in Dafne’s USB class and having a lot of fun. I like being able to create a network of pages that are all my own. But, just as anyone can read or add content to a wiki site, anyone can also take content off [...]

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Daf
What are podcasts, why might your students benefit from listening to them, and how might you go about using and producing them?
Silvana Carnicero
I believe that the good thing is that they will be planning a speech for a real audience and they will neeed to work on editing a lot. Besides, sometimes it [...]

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Daf
“This article takes a look at blogging, which is becoming increasingly popular as a language learning tool. It gives an overview of blogging websites, suggests why you might want to use them, and gives some practical advice on setting up blogs for use with your own classes.”
After reading this article, do you feel ready [...]

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Dear Bawers
Now that you’ve survived the hardships of week 3, I’m sure you will make it safely to the end of the seminar. You might have been completely unaware, otherwise you’d never have ventured into so unsafe a ground, in the first place. Too spoilt and pampered up in weeks 1 and 2, I guess [...]

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More than 30 participants eagerly attended Barbara Dieu – Bee – and Graham Stanley presentation on Blogging and Podcasting at the Alado. First Barbara focused on different types of blogs, then she explained the advantages of RSS feed. Finally she explored some of the pedagogical implication of this extremely dynamic tool. Bee pointed out that [...]

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